New Silent Generation
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| American Generations | |
|---|---|
| Term | Period |
| Awakening Generation | 1701–1723 |
| First Great Awakening | 1730–1740 |
| Liberty Generation Republican Generation Compromise Generation | 1724–1741 1742–1766 1767–1791 |
| Second Great Awakening | 1790–1840 |
| Transcendentalist Generation Transcendental Generation Abolitionist Generation Gilded Generation Progressive Generation | 1789–1819 1792–1821 1819–1842 1822–1842 1843–1859 |
| Third Great Awakening aka Missionary Awakening | 1886–1908 |
| Missionary Generation Lost Generation Interbellum Generation G.I. Generation Greatest Generation | 1860–1882 1883–1900 1900–1910 1900–1924 1911–1924 |
| Jazz Age aka American High | 1929–1956 |
| Silent Generation Baby boomer>Baby Boomers Beat Generation Generation Jones | 1925–1945 1946–1964 1948–1962 1954–1965 |
| Consciousness Revolution | 1964–1984 |
| Baby Busters Generation X MTV Generation | 1958–1968 1961–1981 1975–1985 |
| Culture Wars | 1984–2005 |
| Boomerang Generation Generation Y Internet generation New Silent Generation | 1981–1986 1977–2003 1986–1999 2001– |
The New Silent Generation is a proposed holding name used by Neil Howe and William Strauss in their demographic history of America, Generations, to describe the generation whose birth years begin in 1999 and continue to an as yet unknown year in the future, most likely the year 2017. The term is a reflection of Howe's and Strauss's theory that the characteristics of American generations are cyclical, and the generation currently being born will share characteristics with the Silent Generation, born in the span of years between 1925 and 1945.
Due to the popular use of the terms Generation X and Generation Y, especially among the market research community, the New Silent Generation is sometimes referred to as Generation Z or the Zoog Generation, because of the birth of Zoog Disney around the time this generation began. Another term sometimes used is Generation Alpha. Although the generation is often said to start somewhere in the early or mid 2000s, the events of 9/11 and the Digital Revolution may make it so that Gen Z is eventually considered to also include those born in the latter 1990s, depending on how much these people will share with the earlier Gen Years as they grow older. The earliest date commonly cited as the beginning of Z is 1995, however some claim that it begins as soon as 1994 or even 1993.
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